Scientists have been hard at work in the sky monitoring a patch of land outside of Melrose called the Ordway-Swisher Biological Station. UF has used this site for extensive research and now the National Ecological Observatory Network called NEON is joining with UF. Sixty sites will be temporarily monitored across the US. Twenty of these will be selected and studied by plane and field sensors for thirty years. Climate scientists will look over the data and assess changes in climate, land use, and the invasion of non-native plants. The research is funded by the National Science Foundation. In three to five years we will know if the UF site will be selected to be monitored for thirty years or just temporarily.